Roberto Beach Aschheim

Aerial view of people on the beach of the swimming lake in Aschheim, Munich, Upper Bavaria, taken on June 7, 2007.  

Why wander afar when the good is so near, many a bather in this picture might have thought—loosely quoting Goethe—while enjoying the sunshine. What looks almost like a Mediterranean holiday resort is in fact an artificially created sandy beach at a former gravel pit in Aschheim.  

(High Above Bavaria, page 106)